Summary
Chengyuan Ma is a quantitative research engineer and MIT MEng candidate with nine years of hands-on software and robotics experience, now working at Citadel. He blends systems-level GPU and CUDA optimization (1000x speedups) with applied research in verifiable computation and WebGPU-based zero-knowledge proof tooling, contributing to a ZPrize top-5 result. A former competitive programmer and robot-team leader who reached national finals and World Finals respectively, he also published IROS work on avatar-robot alignment and built mixed-reality rehab applications with HoloLens. Comfortable across low-level performance engineering, RL environments, and developer-facing compilers, Chengyuan’s portfolio and GitHub reflect a long-standing drive to turn research prototypes into practical, portable systems.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science, Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Shanghai Foreign Language School Affiliated to SISU